Sintered 6061 Aluminum vs. AWS ERTi-5
Sintered 6061 aluminum belongs to the aluminum alloys classification, while AWS ERTi-5 belongs to the titanium alloys.
For each property being compared, the top bar is sintered 6061 aluminum and the bottom bar is AWS ERTi-5.
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Mechanical Properties
| Elastic (Young's, Tensile) Modulus, GPa | 68 | |
| 110 |
| Elongation at Break, % | 0.5 to 6.0 | |
| 10 |
| Fatigue Strength, MPa | 32 to 62 | |
| 470 |
| Poisson's Ratio | 0.33 | |
| 0.32 |
| Shear Modulus, GPa | 25 | |
| 40 |
| Tensile Strength: Ultimate (UTS), MPa | 83 to 210 | |
| 900 |
| Tensile Strength: Yield (Proof), MPa | 62 to 190 | |
| 830 |
Thermal Properties
| Latent Heat of Fusion, J/g | 400 | |
| 410 |
| Maximum Temperature: Mechanical, °C | 170 | |
| 340 |
| Melting Completion (Liquidus), °C | 640 | |
| 1610 |
| Melting Onset (Solidus), °C | 610 | |
| 1560 |
| Specific Heat Capacity, J/kg-K | 900 | |
| 560 |
| Thermal Conductivity, W/m-K | 200 | |
| 7.1 |
| Thermal Expansion, µm/m-K | 23 | |
| 9.6 |
Electrical Properties
| Electrical Conductivity: Equal Volume, % IACS | 52 | |
| 1.0 |
| Electrical Conductivity: Equal Weight (Specific), % IACS | 170 | |
| 2.0 |
Otherwise Unclassified Properties
| Base Metal Price, % relative | 9.5 | |
| 36 |
| Density, g/cm3 | 2.7 | |
| 4.4 |
| Embodied Carbon, kg CO2/kg material | 8.3 | |
| 38 |
| Embodied Energy, MJ/kg | 150 | |
| 610 |
| Embodied Water, L/kg | 1180 | |
| 200 |
Common Calculations
| Resilience: Ultimate (Unit Rupture Work), MJ/m3 | 0.68 to 7.0 | |
| 87 |
| Resilience: Unit (Modulus of Resilience), kJ/m3 | 28 to 280 | |
| 3250 |
| Stiffness to Weight: Axial, points | 14 | |
| 13 |
| Stiffness to Weight: Bending, points | 51 | |
| 35 |
| Strength to Weight: Axial, points | 8.6 to 21 | |
| 56 |
| Strength to Weight: Bending, points | 16 to 29 | |
| 46 |
| Thermal Diffusivity, mm2/s | 81 | |
| 2.9 |
| Thermal Shock Resistance, points | 3.8 to 9.4 | |
| 63 |
Alloy Composition
| Aluminum (Al), % | 96 to 99.4 | |
| 5.5 to 6.8 |
| Carbon (C), % | 0 | |
| 0 to 0.050 |
| Copper (Cu), % | 0 to 0.5 | |
| 0 |
| Hydrogen (H), % | 0 | |
| 0 to 0.015 |
| Iron (Fe), % | 0 | |
| 0 to 0.22 |
| Magnesium (Mg), % | 0.4 to 1.2 | |
| 0 |
| Nitrogen (N), % | 0 | |
| 0 to 0.030 |
| Oxygen (O), % | 0 | |
| 0.12 to 0.2 |
| Silicon (Si), % | 0.2 to 0.8 | |
| 0 |
| Titanium (Ti), % | 0 | |
| 88.2 to 90.9 |
| Vanadium (V), % | 0 | |
| 3.5 to 4.5 |
| Residuals, % | 0 to 1.5 | |
| 0 |